Anthropic Just Rolled Out Claude for Legal
Anthropic has launched Claude for Legal, an AI suite tailored to law schools and legal clinics. The offering includes a law‑student plugin that assists with exam preparation, a free CourtListener connector that provides research without Westlaw or LexisNexis, and a legal‑clinic plugin that automates supervisory workflows. By bypassing traditional research monopolies and reducing clinical costs, Claude for Legal aims to reshape access‑to‑justice and legal education. The rollout marks Anthropic’s first major foray into the legal‑tech arena.
Photos: The Global Cost of the Iran War
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Newspaper Finder
Newspaper Finder is a free, web‑based index that pulls together digitized newspaper collections from more than 30 partner sites, letting users search across them in a single interface. The service does not host any newspaper content; instead it redirects visitors...
Security Researchers Use Anthropic’s Mythos AI Model to Crack Apple’s macOS
Security firm Calif leveraged Anthropic’s Mythos generative‑AI model to uncover two memory‑corruption bugs in Apple’s macOS, enabling a privilege‑escalation exploit that can seize control of a machine. The researchers demonstrated that Mythos not only identified the vulnerabilities but also assisted...
How Traffic Through the Strait of Hormuz Shrank to a Trickle – a Visual Deep Dive
The war in Iran has slashed maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz from roughly 3,000 vessels a month to just 191 in April, according to Kpler data. Before the conflict, oil tankers moved about 15 million barrels of crude and...
Trump Strategy Names Antifa Among “Major Types of Terror Groups”
The White House released a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that classifies "violent left‑wing extremists, including anarchists and anti‑fascists," as one of three major terror group categories facing the United States. Antifa is listed alongside narcoterrorists, transnational gangs and legacy Islamist...
The Real Cost of the Iran War: $72 Billion for the First 60 Days
Popular Information estimates the United States has spent roughly $71.8 billion in the first 60 days of the Iran war, far exceeding the Pentagon’s publicly stated $25 billion and CBS’s $50 billion figures. The analysis aggregates daily operational costs, munitions purchases, combat losses,...
Status of Key US Munitions
A CSIS report finds that despite heavy use of Tomahawks, Patriots and other missiles in the Iran war, the United States still holds enough of the seven key munitions to sustain the conflict under any plausible scenario. However, four of...
Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World
Chinese developers have released Haotian AI, a real‑time deepfake tool that can morph a scammer’s face into any target during live video calls. The software integrates with mainstream platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, allowing...
FBI Targets Journalists Along with Billionaires
The FBI executed a search warrant on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home, seizing her iPhone as part of a national‑security leak investigation, marking an unprecedented move against a journalist. Natanson was awarded a Pulitzer weeks after the raid, underscoring...
Should You Ask ChatGPT for Medical Advice?
A recent interview with Harvard assistant professor Adam Rodman examines the surge of AI chatbots like ChatGPT as sources of medical advice. While 68% of U.S. adults have turned to search engines for health information, about a third of those users...
How the Gun Industry Targets Kids Using TikTok, Instagram, and Video Games
A new Mother Jones report reveals that gun manufacturers are aggressively marketing AR‑15‑style rifles to children through TikTok, Instagram, and video‑game platforms. The investigation cites historic campaigns like Remington’s “Man Card” and recent social‑media glorification of figures such as Kyle...
Happy Map
Alvin Chang of The Pudding created an interactive "happy map" using 100,000 crowdsourced moments of joy, visualizing how happiness varies by income, age and technology use. The map draws on the HappyDB dataset, a publicly available corpus of 100,000 happy‑moment...
Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement
The Future of Law Libraries initiative convened six regional roundtables with academic, court, firm, and government law librarians to explore AI’s impact on legal education, practice, and information services. Using scenario‑building, participants identified that legal information professionals must lead AI...
Vibe Coding Authorship
The essay "Vibe Coding Authorship" examines how companies like Anthropic now rely entirely on AI models such as Claude to write production code, a practice the author calls “vibe coding.” Under the U.S. Copyright Office’s current “human authorship” rule, works...
Chrome’s AI Features May Be Hogging 4GB of Your Computer Storage
Google Chrome now bundles a 4 GB Gemini Nano on‑device AI model when certain AI tools are enabled. The weights.bin file lives in the browser’s OptGuideOnDeviceModel folder and powers features such as scam detection, writing assistance, and autofill. Because the model...
Flipbook – Infinite Visual Browser Generated Entirely on Demand in Real Time
Flipbook redefines web browsing by generating each page as a real‑time AI‑crafted image rather than HTML. Users click on visual elements and the system instantly creates a new picture that dives deeper into the selected topic, forming an infinite visual...
Apocalypse Early Warning System
The Apocalypse Early Warning System (EWS) monitors real‑time business‑jet activity to flag potential elite evacuations ahead of a catastrophic event. It aggregates ADS‑B Exchange, Mictronics tar1090, and FAA registry data, matching aircraft by ICAO hex codes and storing position, speed,...
Mark Zuckerberg Sued for Copyright Infringement by Elsevier, Book Publishers
Elsevier, other book publishers and author Scott Turow filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and Meta in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges Meta scraped millions of pages from shadow libraries, used the content to...
DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Government’s ID Platform
Greg Hogan, a former Comma.ai executive and DOGE affiliate, has been named acting assistant commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS). In this role he will direct Login.gov, the federal government’s secure identity platform, with a mandate...
You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry
BlackBerry has reinvented itself by monetizing QNX, its real‑time operating system embedded in roughly 275 million cars worldwide. The software underpins critical driver‑assistance functions such as collision warnings, blind‑spot alerts and adaptive cruise control. Beyond automotive, QNX powers surgical robots, factory...
Climate Trunk
Climate Trunk launches a two‑year series of weekly infographics that together form a visual “tree of knowledge” on climate science, policy, impacts and justice. The initiative uses a trunk‑and‑rings metaphor to organize each new visual as a coherent layer that...
How LLMs Actually Work
A new interactive guide walks readers through the end‑to‑end construction of large language models, from raw internet text to a conversational assistant, using Andrej Karpathy’s technical deep‑dive as its foundation. The guide emphasizes that each word a model emits is...
CNN Report Says 16 US Military Sites in Middle East Damaged
CNN’s investigative team reports that Iran and allied militias have damaged 16 U.S. military sites across the Middle East, using satellite imagery to document hits on advanced radar, communications gear, and aircraft. The Department of Defense estimates repair and disruption...
AI Learns Language From Skewed Sources. That Could Change How We Humans Speak – and Think
Large language models (LLMs) are primarily trained on written sources—textbooks, social media, movies—while largely ignoring unscripted spoken conversation. This training bias means AI reproduces a narrowed slice of human language, reflecting the tone and toxicity of online discourse. As AI‑generated...
The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’
A new Atlantic piece highlights research by UC‑Irvine psychologist Gloria Mark showing that knowledge‑workers increasingly fragment their attention. In 2004 workers switched tasks roughly every three minutes; by 2012 that interval fell to 75 seconds and by 2022 to 45...
EarthIndex
Earth Index launches an AI‑driven platform that turns raw satellite imagery into searchable, actionable intelligence in under a day. The service leverages large Earth foundation models to automatically recognize any feature on the planet, from illegal mining pits to deforestation...
Over 80% of US Government Agencies Already Use AI Agents – and It’s only the Beginning
IDC research shows that more than 80% of U.S. federal agencies have already integrated AI agents into their operations, moving the technology from pilot projects to mandated workflows. Adoption is driven by budget constraints, regulatory compliance, workforce skill gaps, and...
Medicare Portal Database Exposed Health Providers’ Social Security Numbers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a public database to power a new Medicare provider directory, but the file unintentionally included health care providers' Social Security numbers linked to their identities. The Washington Post downloaded the dataset,...
Maryland Property Search Tool Is Back Online, Nearly Two Weeks After Cyber Attack
Maryland’s State Department of Assessments and Taxation took its online property ownership database offline on April 14 after detecting suspicious activity, initiating a cyber‑security investigation. The site remained inaccessible for nearly two weeks while officials analyzed servers, remediated vulnerabilities, and completed...
How the Experts Figure Out What’s Real in the Age of Deepfakes
Following the US‑Israel strike on Iran, a flood of AI‑generated and misattributed images spread online. Major outlets such as The New York Times, Indicator and Bellingcat rely on rigorous verification protocols to filter out deepfakes and game footage. The article...
2026 RSF Index: Press Freedom at a 25-Year Low
The 2026 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index reveals that more than half of the 180 surveyed countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories, marking the lowest average score in the index’s 25‑year history. A steep...
Licensed to Loot – Big Finance, Big Tech and the AI Infrastructure Grab
The report argues that the surge in AI data‑centre construction is a manufactured investment cycle driven by concentrated financial capital and dominant tech platforms, not by genuine consumer demand. Big finance and Big Tech are financing speculative build‑outs while externalising...
The Psychic Toll of AI
The article highlights a growing "AI burnout" as employees confront unconsented, inaccurate AI tools across meetings, Slack channels, code reviews, and design work. Rapid AI adoption forces teams to produce and merge content faster than they can verify, leading to...
Government Accountability Office to Investigate DOJ Handling of Epstein Files
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has opened an investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, focusing on how the agency reviewed, redacted, and released the documents. The probe follows a bipartisan letter from senators, led by...
Clean Power Annual Market Report 2025
The American Clean Power (ACP) market report shows utility‑scale clean energy dominated new capacity additions in 2025, delivering over 50 GW—enough for roughly 7 million homes. The sector attracted $79 billion in fresh investment and contributed more than $150 billion to the U.S. economy....
Michael Taylor & Steve Sillett Discover World’s 10 Tallest Douglas-Firs
Researchers Michael Taylor and Dr. Steve Sillett used advanced LiDAR processing to locate four of the ten tallest known coastal Douglas‑fir trees, including the world’s #4 and #5 specimens at 315.3 ft and 313.6 ft in Olympic National Park. Taylor rescued a...
Trump DOJ Filed Truth Social Post in Federal Court Demanding US Taxpayers Pay for Trump’s Ballroom
In July 2025 former President Donald Trump pledged a 90,000‑square‑foot ballroom on the White House East Wing, touting a $200 million price tag with “zero cost to the American taxpayer.” By December the projected cost had ballooned to $400 million, and the...
Your Favorite Brands Got Worse On Purpose
Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has built a $20 billion valuation by buying distressed iconic trademarks—such as Brooks Brothers, Champion, Eddie Bauer and Sports Illustrated—and licensing them to third‑party manufacturers. The company never designs or makes the products, instead collecting royalties while the...
Major Law Firms Are Warning Clients: Anything You Type Into an AI Chatbot Can Be Used Against You in Court…
Major U.S. law firms are cautioning clients that any text entered into AI chatbots such as Claude or ChatGPT can be subpoenaed and used in criminal or civil proceedings. The warning follows a New York federal judge’s ruling that a...
US Government Ramps up Mass Surveillance with Help of AI Tech, Data Brokers, Your Apps and Devices
The U.S. government is dramatically expanding its mass‑surveillance capabilities by pairing $165 billion in annual DHS funding with AI‑driven analytics and private‑sector contracts. Agencies such as ICE have secured roughly $86 billion, while the FBI openly purchases bulk location data from commercial...
Claude Legal Is Here, and It’s Worth a Closer Look
Anthropic has launched the Claude Legal plugin, embedded in the Claude Cowork desktop application. The AI‑powered tool lets lawyers automate document review and contract drafting without purchasing a separate legal‑software subscription. It draws on Claude’s large‑language‑model to parse legal language,...
Hallucinations” By West & Lexis AI?
Michael Berman’s LLRX article examines AI legal research platforms such as Westlaw and LexisNexis that use retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) and the rising risk of hallucinated answers. He critiques current benchmarking practices for overlooking factual accuracy and argues that verification is...
Half of AI Health Answers Are Wrong Even Though They Sound Convincing
A study published in BMJ Open evaluated five popular AI chatbots—ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and DeepSeek—by asking them 250 health‑related questions across cancer, vaccines, stem cells, nutrition and athletic performance. Independent experts rated the answers, finding that roughly 20%...
Trump DOJ Limits Efforts to Safeguard States From Election Crimes
The Justice Department has dismantled its centralized election‑threat response hub, ending mandatory election‑law training for federal prosecutors and cutting off state officials’ access to DOJ threat briefings. Coordination is now dispersed to 93 US attorneys, many appointed by President Trump,...
Pentagon Fires Ombudsman Overseeing Military Newspaper After Calling It ‘Woke’
After labeling the military newspaper Stars and Stripes as “woke,” the Pentagon announced a restructuring of the publication and subsequently terminated its ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith. Smith’s dismissal came without explanation, despite the ombudsman position being mandated by Congress to protect...
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Stanford researchers modeled the health impact of a complete loss of childhood vaccines for polio, measles, rubella and diphtheria over the next 25 years. Their simulations show that even at today’s vaccination levels the U.S. is on the brink of...
Missing Scientists and Researchers
The FBI has opened an investigation into a series of deaths and disappearances involving at least ten scientists and researchers linked to U.S. nuclear and aerospace programs since 2023. The incidents have drawn the attention of the House Oversight Committee,...
Spoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them
A surge of spoofed tankers is disappearing through the Strait of Hormuz, prompting analysts to piece together fragmented data to monitor movements. US satellite providers recently restricted high‑resolution imagery of the area, forcing firms like TankerTrackers.com to revive older sources...
The New Tactics of TikTok Journalism
New research by Kaia Tran, a journalism graduate, outlines how newsrooms can succeed on TikTok, a platform now used by over half of its users for news. While 14% of those users follow journalists or news outlets, the white paper...